Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have access to a rather large computer (3GB of RAM) and I would like to write a program to access most of this memory. I find that I am unable to malloc more than about 0.5 GB of memory, even if I do it in small increments. Now I am trying mmap, and this

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:12:32AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Why doesn't malloc work to get all the memory it can? I don't know; you would have to petition PHK for an answer as to why, since he is I honestly doubt it's a problem in phkmalloc :) As for topping out at ~2.5G: yes: that's

Re: rc.d boot scripts are ready

2002-06-06 Thread Mike Makonnen
[ forgive this breach of net-ettiquette, but this should probably be given a wider audience] On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 05:01:18 -0600 Mike Makonnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok folks, I have our current rc.* scripts ported to the NetBSD framework. Preliminary testing says it's good to go, so

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Miguel Mendez wrote: As for topping out at ~2.5G: yes: that's what's expected. If you really need more memory than that, you will need to drop ~US$10K on a 64 bit Itanium machine, and petition Peter Wemm for the correct dead chicken to wave over the thing. Just out of curiosity, why

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have access to a rather large computer (3GB of RAM) and I would like to write a program to access most of this memory. I find that I am unable to malloc more than about 0.5 GB of memory, even if I do it in small increments. Now I am

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:56:57PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have access to a rather large computer (3GB of RAM) and I would like to write a program to access most of this memory. I find that I am unable to malloc more than about 0.5 GB of memory, even if I do it in small

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 06), Andrew Gallatin said: Stephen Montgomery-Smith writes: I have access to a rather large computer (3GB of RAM) and I would like to write a program to access most of this memory. I find that I am unable to malloc more than about 0.5 GB of memory, even if I

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Miguel Mendez wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:04:56AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: How come? A Sun Blade 100 is about $1,000. That's not what I call expensive. It's not an E4500, but not a bad box once you load it with a bit more RAM and a SCSI controller. You can get Ultra 10 boxen pretty

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Gallatin wrote: [ ...Alpha 2G memory limit... ] The only known problem is nearly all PCI network drivers don't use busdma (disk controllers already use busdma). If you're willing to use a crappy ISA nic which either uses busdma or just does PIO, you should be fine. (newer alphas

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread David Miller
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: Except Itanium is nowhere production ready, so you probably need something else, e.g. sparc or ppc. Mips is also a nice arch to work with, btw, unfortunately SGI hardware is extremely expensive. Are there any estimates of when freebsd will move to 64

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, David Miller wrote: Are there any estimates of when freebsd will move to 64 bits on the upcoming sledgehammer CPU from AMD? Rumor has it that adding such support will be relatively easy once actual hammer hardware appears. I believe that a few people had been working on

USB: Anyone working on it?

2002-06-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
Is there anyone out there working on USB stuff? I reported kern/37624 a while back, and have heard nothing on it. It's an issue with the ICH3 USB (UHCI) driver. Thanks, LER -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail:

Re: Cannot access disk

2002-06-06 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: After adding a 40G ide disk(ad3) on my system, I 'ld like to devote some extra space to FreeBSD (there is already a linux installation on the 40G disk). However, after booting my -stable installation on the first disk(ad0), I get the error

projects that need to be done...

2002-06-06 Thread Trish Lynch
Question: what types of things can be done by people who are generally just learning thier way around some of the code? is there anyone willing to patiently work with a fast learner (yes, honestly my biggest fear is since that I'm entirely self taught is that I have some bad habits, and

accessing data track of multimedia CD?

2002-06-06 Thread Brian Reichert
I've been beating my head for hours against a wall trying to research this: Under FreeBSD (4.5-RELEASE), with an ATAPI device (/dev/acd0c), how can I mount, or otherwise access the data in a 'data track' of a 'multimedia CD'? cdda2wav shows me: % /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -I

Re: Cannot access disk

2002-06-06 Thread
On Thursday 06 June 2002 22:36, Doug White wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: After adding a 40G ide disk(ad3) on my system, I 'ld like to devote some extra space to FreeBSD (there is already a linux installation on the 40G disk). However, after booting my -stable

Re: projects that need to be done...

2002-06-06 Thread Trish Lynch
Actually don;t worry about this Forget it, really, I was just hoping someone wouldn;t mind someone to mold into a generally decent workhorse. -Trish -- Trish Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD The Power to Serve Ecartis

Re: projects that need to be done...

2002-06-06 Thread Andrew
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Trish Lynch wrote: what types of things can be done by people who are generally just learning thier way around some of the code? is there anyone willing to You could go through the PR database and see if there are any problems reported that you could solve. If you

RE: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU?

2002-06-06 Thread John Baldwin
On 06-Jun-2002 j mckitrick wrote: Hi all, I'm sure the SMP features along with removal of the Big Giant Lock (TM) are designed to sacrifice as little performance as possible across the board. In practical terms, will a 5.0 kernel without SMP have any performance loss at all on a single

Re: Project: a benchmark utility

2002-06-06 Thread Trish Lynch
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, John Baldwin wrote: On 06-Jun-2002 Trish Lynch wrote: Question: what types of things can be done by people who are generally just learning thier way around some of the code? is there anyone willing to patiently work with a fast learner (yes, honestly my

Re: projects that need to be done...

2002-06-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Andrew wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Trish Lynch wrote: what types of things can be done by people who are generally just learning thier way around some of the code? is there anyone willing to You could go through the PR database and see if there are any problems

Re: projects that need to be done...

2002-06-06 Thread Trish Lynch
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Mike Silbersack wrote: Or, if you're so inclined, start working on adding a feature that you find lacking in FreeBSD. Mentoring someone is a great idea, but it doesn't end up working too well in a volunteer project. Contribution works best when it's self motivated.

Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU?

2002-06-06 Thread j mckitrick
| almost all of the kernel. However, the SMP work is still in progress and | it will get better as time goes on. One thing to note is that in 4.x, Well, I'm trying to decide if I should make the leap to 5.0 when it comes out (my early adopter side talking) or wait around for a rev or 2 (my

DAMMIT

2002-06-06 Thread Trish Lynch
ok last two emails went to the list becaise I'm tired and craky and didn;t mean to disclose any of that information, but accidentally replied to all excuse me, I'll go crawl in a hole now. -Trish -- Trish Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD

Re: Project: a benchmark utility

2002-06-06 Thread Lars Eggert
John Baldwin wrote: Once I have that, it would be nice to have a simple tool that would take one of these tabular files as input and spit out appropriate statistics about each column (mean, mode, median, stddev, highlight outliers, etc.). If some sensible (i.e. meaningful) graphs can be

Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU?

2002-06-06 Thread John Baldwin
On 07-Jun-2002 j mckitrick wrote: | almost all of the kernel. However, the SMP work is still in progress and | it will get better as time goes on. One thing to note is that in 4.x, Well, I'm trying to decide if I should make the leap to 5.0 when it comes out (my early adopter side talking)

Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU?

2002-06-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, j mckitrick wrote: | almost all of the kernel. However, the SMP work is still in progress and | it will get better as time goes on. One thing to note is that in 4.x, Well, I'm trying to decide if I should make the leap to 5.0 when it comes out (my early adopter side

Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU?

2002-06-06 Thread j mckitrick
| If none of the features are that useful to you, then by all means stick | with 4.7 or whatever we're up to when 5.0-release comes out. I'm sure Well, I definitely plan to move to 5.x. The question is when. When it will be ready for general use, and when I will be able to learn all the new

Re: SMP/5.0 performance on single CPU?

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:| If none of the features are that useful to you, then by all means stick :| with 4.7 or whatever we're up to when 5.0-release comes out. I'm sure : :Well, I definitely plan to move to 5.x. The question is when. When it :will be ready for general use, and when I will be able to learn all the

Re: projects that need to be done...

2002-06-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Trish Lynch wrote: Question: what types of things can be done by people who are generally just learning thier way around some of the code? is there anyone willing to patiently work with a fast learner (yes, honestly my biggest fear is since that I'm entirely self taught is that I

Re: cvsup doesn't get me what I want

2002-06-06 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Jun 2002 at 8:37, John Polstra wrote: I'll help you figure this out if you'll send me the following information: Thanks John. The cvsupd server config files for the collection (releases and the list